Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Hoult is the English actor who provides the voice of Patrick in Crossing Swords.

Filmography
Hoult has done supporting work in big-budget mainstream productions as well as starring roles in independent projects in both the American and the British film industries.

Finding his way to the big screen in 1996 when he was seven years old with the film Intimate Relations, he has appeared in several TV shows between 1998 and 2001. His breakthrough came with his portrayal of Marcus Brewer in the 2002 comedy-drama film About a Boy, which even earned him a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. From there, he took his career to gain further fame with performances in the E4 teen comedy-drama series Skins, the drama film A Single Man, which resulted in a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, and the fantasy film Clash of the Titans (2010). In 2011, he joined the X-Men family, when he took on the role of a young Hank McCoy in the superhero film X-Men: First Class, a role he reprised in later instalments of the series. He also played the lead title role in the fantasy adaptation Jack the Giant Slayer and brought a zombie to life in the romantic comedy Warm Bodies.

Besides fantasy characters, Hoult has also took on the role of various real-life figures such as Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford in the historical black comedy The Favourite, the writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019), and Peter III in the Hulu miniseries The Great.